Jam Filled Muffins

Wanted a quick light summer read and picked "Red Velvet Cupcake Murder" at the library - this author has a whole series of books about a baking/mystery-solving sleuth  - and since I enjoy "who-done-it" mysteries (with recipes!) I gave it a go.  I didn't love the book (sorry Joanne Fluke) but the recipes all looked pretty good so it was a no-brainer to quickly be done with the book and want to bake something. These "Jamboree Muffins" fit the bill, I had all the ingredients on hand and it only makes 12 - so if I didn't love them as much as I didn't love the book I wasn't out much! I made half with strawberry jam, and the other half are apricot - and they are really good, I definitely like them better than the story haha. If you read her series let me know what you think - should I try other ones and give her another shot? 

Jamboree Muffins

Preheat oven to 400'. Grease or spray the bottoms of 12 muffin cups (or use cupcake paper liners). 

-1 large egg, slightly beaten
-3/4 cup whole milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
-1 T. baking powder
-1 t. salt
-approx. 1/4 cup jam of your choice (you can make different flavors if you want, good way to use up those almost finished jars of jam!)


In a medium sized bowl beat the egg with the milk until they are well combined. Stir in the oil and sugar. Measure out the flour in another bowl, stir in the baking powder and salt with a fork. Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture in half-cup increments, stirring after each increment, but only until the four is moistened. The resulting batter will be lumpy, it's supposed to be. Fill the muffin cups half-full with batter. Drop 1 teaspoon of jam into the center of each muffin, cover the jam with muffin batter until the muffin cups are 3/4 full. Bake at 400' for 15 minutes or until the muffins are golden brown. Let them cool in the pan for 10 minutes before serving. 

Makes 12. 


The author's notes are that these are good warm or cold, and with or without butter. We only ate them cold and no butter was necessary - although it's butter, and you know everything's better with butter :) ha!